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Education, Immigration Said Keys To US Manufacturing
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Margaret Ryan
AOL Energy
3/6/2012
Modern manufacturing is not your grandfather's factory, and the same traditional education and immigration policies are forming barriers to keeping manufacturing in the US.
That was the message from business and university leaders at the Feb. 27-29 Energy Innovation Summit, sponsored by the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu, opening the summit, identified making the nation's undisputed lead in technology innovation produce domestic manufacturing as a major national challenge.
Business leaders pointed to education and immigration policies as major hurdles. Read more about the transforming energy sector from Steven Chu on AOL Energy here.
